Robin Phelps-Ward
Biographic Data
| ID | 6555747 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robin Phelps-Ward |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robin |
| FAMILY NAME | Phelps-Ward |
| SIGNATURE | PHELPS-WARD R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ball State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7942-2462 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Body-ody-ody
While photovoice, a visual methodology, is widely known for helping to deepen the understanding of participant experiences and informing institutional change, it has rarely centered Black imagery from our unique cultural, historical, and political standpoints. Drawing on insights from a photovoice project titled #FatOnCampus, the authors focus on the compelling imagery and narratives of Serena Moon, a self-identified fat Black graduate student. T…
Black to the Future
Envisioning a more empowered and liberated future for Black people, this article speaks to the ability and capacity of Black digital practice in visual methodologies and research. New approaches in critical qualitative methods, which demand many skills and abilities by researchers, continue to evolve amid the ever-evolving media technologies that are an integral part of and even inherent in our day-to-day lives. In the age of technological innova…
Toward an Endarkened Photovoice Methodology
The canonical and foundational literature on photovoice research and photo elicitation methods specifically focuses on the impact, import, and power of visual approaches to inquiry and knowledge production (Kim, 2016; Latz, 2017; Wang & Burris, 1997). Additional research also describes the importance of photovoice research as an action research project that should be meaningfully engaged with the community in question (Kim, 2016; Latz, 2017). Thi…
Research Teams for Liberation and Worldmaking
While research teams, labs, collectives, and other configurations of collaborative inquiry-based groups abound within the context of education, the literature and research base remains scant with models or guides for the development, maintenance, and activist work tied to community-based research teams (Guest & MacQueen, 2008; Krockover et al., 2001). With collective care, community, liberation, and critical praxis as the guiding values, we call …
Reckoning Through Photovoice
In this collaborative essay we explore the individual and collective identities of seven Black* scholars through narrative reflection. Informed by endarkened feminist epistemology (EFE), and implemented through collaborative autoethnographic methods, we considered how our methodological engagement with photovoice shaped our identities as Black* scholars in relation to research. We found that our research experiences closely mirrored several tenet…
A labor of love, but I’m tired”: Exploring the socialization of multicultural student affairs professionals
The Power of Names in Identity and Oppression: Narratives for Equity in Higher Education and Student Affairs
Pictures of Health: Examining Well-being and Resistance of Graduate Students of Color
This photovoice study engages a Black feminist thought lens to identify the sites of oppression that posed barriers to the well-being of 22 graduate Students of Color (GSOC) enrolled at Clemson University and their subsequent mechanisms of resistance. Findings point to individual, cultural, and institutional forms of domination and students’ resistance tied to community networks, healing, and activism as campus leaders. This paper ends with impli…
Re-examining and reimagining power in participatory visual methodologies: A collaborative autoethnography
The purpose of this study is to re-examine and reimagine the role of power in participatory visual methodologies (PVM) research. From our four unique standpoints as higher education faculty (two of us identify as queer white women and two of us identify as Black women; all of us as ciswomen), we engage a collective autoethnographic approach to reflect on power and its influence in our work as visual methods researchers. We (re)present the finding…
Talking back in cyberspace: Self-love, hair care, and counter narratives in Black adolescent girls’ YouTube vlogs
While the ‘natural hair movement’ has grown in popularity and criticism, educational researchers have not attended to how Black adolescent girls with all textures of natural hair are navigating the implications of foregoing chemical alterations to their curl patterns. This article reports on an investigation of self-talk in 56 internet video logs constructed by Black adolescent girls with natural hair, describing the messages of self-love, hair c…
Talking back in cyberspace: Self-love, hair care, and counter narratives in Black adolescent girls’ YouTube vlogs
While the ‘natural hair movement’ has grown in popularity and criticism, educational researchers have not attended to how Black adolescent girls with all textures of natural hair are navigating the implications of foregoing chemical alterations to their curl patterns. This article reports on an investigation of self-talk in 56 internet video logs constructed by Black adolescent girls with natural hair, describing the messages of self-love, hair c…
Talking back in cyberspace: Self-love, hair care, and counter narratives in Black adolescent girls’ YouTube vlogs
While the ‘natural hair movement’ has grown in popularity and criticism, educational researchers have not attended to how Black adolescent girls with all textures of natural hair are navigating the implications of foregoing chemical alterations to their curl patterns. This article reports on an investigation of self-talk in 56 internet video logs constructed by Black adolescent girls with natural hair, describing the messages of self-love, hair c…
Re-examining and reimagining power in participatory visual methodologies: A collaborative autoethnography
The purpose of this study is to re-examine and reimagine the role of power in participatory visual methodologies (PVM) research. From our four unique standpoints as higher education faculty (two of us identify as queer white women and two of us identify as Black women; all of us as ciswomen), we engage a collective autoethnographic approach to reflect on power and its influence in our work as visual methods researchers. We (re)present the finding…
The Power of Names in Identity and Oppression: Narratives for Equity in Higher Education and Student Affairs
Pictures of Health: Examining Well-being and Resistance of Graduate Students of Color
This photovoice study engages a Black feminist thought lens to identify the sites of oppression that posed barriers to the well-being of 22 graduate Students of Color (GSOC) enrolled at Clemson University and their subsequent mechanisms of resistance. Findings point to individual, cultural, and institutional forms of domination and students’ resistance tied to community networks, healing, and activism as campus leaders. This paper ends with impli…
Body-ody-ody
While photovoice, a visual methodology, is widely known for helping to deepen the understanding of participant experiences and informing institutional change, it has rarely centered Black imagery from our unique cultural, historical, and political standpoints. Drawing on insights from a photovoice project titled #FatOnCampus, the authors focus on the compelling imagery and narratives of Serena Moon, a self-identified fat Black graduate student. T…
Black to the Future
Envisioning a more empowered and liberated future for Black people, this article speaks to the ability and capacity of Black digital practice in visual methodologies and research. New approaches in critical qualitative methods, which demand many skills and abilities by researchers, continue to evolve amid the ever-evolving media technologies that are an integral part of and even inherent in our day-to-day lives. In the age of technological innova…
Toward an Endarkened Photovoice Methodology
The canonical and foundational literature on photovoice research and photo elicitation methods specifically focuses on the impact, import, and power of visual approaches to inquiry and knowledge production (Kim, 2016; Latz, 2017; Wang & Burris, 1997). Additional research also describes the importance of photovoice research as an action research project that should be meaningfully engaged with the community in question (Kim, 2016; Latz, 2017). Thi…
Research Teams for Liberation and Worldmaking
While research teams, labs, collectives, and other configurations of collaborative inquiry-based groups abound within the context of education, the literature and research base remains scant with models or guides for the development, maintenance, and activist work tied to community-based research teams (Guest & MacQueen, 2008; Krockover et al., 2001). With collective care, community, liberation, and critical praxis as the guiding values, we call …
Reckoning Through Photovoice
In this collaborative essay we explore the individual and collective identities of seven Black* scholars through narrative reflection. Informed by endarkened feminist epistemology (EFE), and implemented through collaborative autoethnographic methods, we considered how our methodological engagement with photovoice shaped our identities as Black* scholars in relation to research. We found that our research experiences closely mirrored several tenet…
A labor of love, but I’m tired”: Exploring the socialization of multicultural student affairs professionals
Sociology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Photovoice (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)